Quinn's Further Research Into Action Films Similar To Ours

There are many action films that have plots and story lines that have similarities to ours, these usually include other films that have a story line focused around a heist.

The first film I am having a look at is The Italian Job, two of the major similarities between it and our film is that firstly the intention of the characters is too steal gold using cars as a getaway vehicle, ours is similar to this but our characters are using bikes. Another similarity is the location, as a large majority of The Italian Job takes place in a garage, as does our film, the reason for this being that garages and workshops are associated with masculinity. Another similarity The Italian Job our film has is that the characters it follows are the thief’s rather than the police. In our film we also plan to use many of the styles of shots they use in The Italian Job, such as wide shots, which are used in this film to show all of the vehicles on screen.

The next film I am looking at is Snatch, it has many similarities which we hope to replicate in our introduction, some of the similarities include that the music is slow and builds up at first, and then evolves into action packed fast piece of music, like our film, also the characters faces are never revealed immediately within the first two minutes, exactly what we achieved in our introduction as the main characters face is never properly shown. Another similarity is that the main characters are mostly strong aggressive looking males, which is again the same as the character in our introduction, finally the films storyline is about groups of people who want to get money through stealing something valuable.

Lastly I am looking at the classic film Die Hard, although the people who are committing the heist are the villains, they are still similar to the protagonist in our movie, due to the fact they are trying to break into a vault, and also that they are all intelligent males , the main antagonist Hans Gruber is not a faceless boring villain, he is an interesting character with as much character development as John McClain, he is also very intimidating and is not afraid to kill people to  get what he wants, it is also shown that he has brains rather than brawns, which is the look we hoped to achieve with our character. The way they do the heist is also how our film planned it subtle, rather than loud, they sneak in undetected, and also use the method of hacking rather than explosions to get inside the vault, and were it not for the main protagonist they would have likely succeeded.

-Quinn